Photoprism LXC outdated libheif version

[dsiebel]

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The Photoprism LXC container comes with an outdated version of libheif: 1.15.1.
The install script contains the download of the pre-bundles libheif tar, provided by Photoprism, but it doesn't not seem to be correctly installed.

The install script uses

wget -q -cO - https://dl.photoprism.app/dist/libheif/libheif-bookworm-amd64-v1.17.1.tar.gz | tar -xzf - -C /usr/local --strip-components=1

to "install" to /usr/local.

The README however recommends installing via the provided install scipt:

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/photoprism/photoprism/develop/scripts/dist/install-libheif.sh)

This successfully installed libheif-v1.17.1 in my Photoprism LXC and I can finally import HEIC images again since switching from custom Docker setup 😅

Happy to provide a PR with the changes, if you agree this should be adjusted.
Thanks for your amazing work!

What settings are you currently utilizing?

Advanced Settings

Which Linux distribution are you employing?

Debian 12

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Please provide detailed steps to reproduce the issue.

• open shell to container
• run heif-convert --version
• should print 1.17.1 but instead prints 1.15.1 (installed from debian sources)

[dsiebel]

Had a closer look at the aformentioned install script. It doesn't seem to do things that much different (wget). However, the install scripts additionally links the runtime bindings using ldconfig:
https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/blob/develop/scripts/dist/install-libheif.sh#L81

Maybe that's all that's missing?

[tteck]

This is from the script

Proxmox/install/photoprism-install.sh

Lines 36 to 43 in 186f186

	mkdir -p /opt/photoprism/{cache,config,photos/originals,photos/import,storage,temp}
	wget -q -cO - https://dl.photoprism.app/pkg/linux/amd64.tar.gz | tar -xz -C /opt/photoprism --strip-components=1
	if [[ ${PCT_OSTYPE} == "ubuntu" ]]; then
	wget -q -cO - https://dl.photoprism.app/dist/libheif/libheif-jammy-amd64-v1.17.1.tar.gz | tar -xzf - -C /usr/local --strip-components=1
	else
	wget -q -cO - https://dl.photoprism.app/dist/libheif/libheif-bookworm-amd64-v1.17.1.tar.gz | tar -xzf - -C /usr/local --strip-components=1
	fi
	ldconfig

[dsiebel]

Whoops, my bad. I read the script like three times and completely missed it.

[tteck]

ldconfig is in the script.

[tteck]

Proxmox/install/photoprism-install.sh

Line 22 in 186f186

$STD apt-get install -y libheif1

could this be causing the issue?

[dsiebel]

It could be. I didn't uninstall it though, just ran the install script as described in the README.

[dsiebel]

The only other difference I see right now is --strip-components=1.